Encoding race, encoding class Indian IT workers in Berlin
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as wel...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press
2016.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745046406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: cognitive workers, cognitive bodies
- ENCODING RACE
- Imagining the Indian IT body
- The postracial office
- Proprietary freedoms in an IT office
- ENCODING CLASS
- The stroke of midnight and the spirit of entrepreneurship : a history of the computer in India
- Computers are very stupid cooks : reinventing leisure as a politics of pleasure
- The traveling diaper bag : gifts and jokes as materializing immaterial labor
- A speculative conclusion : secrets and lives.
